Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

22 priests were at the funeral of Brian Lenihan

  • 14-06-2011 11:04pm
    #1
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,089 ✭✭✭✭


    22 priests were at the funeral of Brian Lenihan, I heard on RTE today. Is there not something strange about that in this day and age?


Comments

  • #2
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Priests at a funeral, nothing strange about that.


  • #3
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Priests love a good funeral.


  • #4
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭squod


    If I had said the joke that's on my mind I'm damn sure someone would ban me.


  • #5
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    What's strange about it?


  • #6
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Well I'd expect at least one for the ceremony, but having 22 might be pushing it a little


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    D15 is a very large area and lots of parishes

    It's not strange at all


  • #8
    Redlion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 794 ✭✭✭Redlion


    They could have just been in attendance to pay their respect, while one of them conducted the service. Kinda hard to know what the case was without a source!


  • #9
    Elmidena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,570 ✭✭✭Elmidena


    I will also refrain from what I was going to say regarding saving his soul. Instead, I shall say that at least he isn't suffering any longer, and his family is at peace.


  • #10
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I imagine its a bit like a Mafia funeral, everyone has to be seen to be there.


  • #11
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    mike65 wrote: »
    I imagine its a bit like a Mafia funeral, every has to be seen to be there.

    like?


  • Advertisement
  • #12
    gman2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,076 ✭✭✭gman2k


    Maybe they were after coming straight from an 11 aside match?


  • #13
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,089 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    mikemac wrote: »
    D15 is a very large area and lots of parishes

    It's not strange at all

    D15 doesn't have 22 parishes, it has one of the lowest mass attendance rates in the country.

    That 22 excludes the ones that took part in the mass delivery.

    It's as if he died in the 1950s with the number of priests going.


  • #14
    cosanostra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭cosanostra


    Did all the Fianna Fail TDs turn up as priests to continue their holier than now act


  • #15
    unknowngirl!!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭unknowngirl!!


    It's not that strange really for a public figure, if it was a member of the public it would be strange. They were there to pay their respect and it might bring his family comfort if they were religious.


  • #16
    starviewadams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,116 ✭✭✭starviewadams


    Standard practice,they're substitute priests,on hand in case the actual priest pulls a muscle while administering the sacraments.


  • #17
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Is there anything to be said for another mass!?!?!


  • #18
    Thatnastyboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭Thatnastyboy


    for some reason i read the thread title as "22 priests were at the funeral of Bin Laden" :eek:


  • #19
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Thatnastyboy wrote: »
    for some reason i read the thread title as "22 priests were at the funeral of Bin Laden" :eek:

    So did i. I thought i was gonna have to give up weed for a minute.


  • #20
    brokenhinge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 152 ✭✭brokenhinge


    It's not unheard of to have a couple of priests at big funerals-there were about three or four for my grandmothers.... but 22? To help with communion etc. I dunno, maybe more showed up than planned?


  • #21
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    There was 1000 people, so probably more than 22 teachers, 22 solicitors, 22 guards etc etc there as well.


  • Advertisement
  • #22
    Thatnastyboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭Thatnastyboy


    super-rush wrote: »
    So did i. I thought i was gonna have to give up weed for a minute.

    Me too... :confused:

    hold on, are you me? am i you?


  • #23
    Blink182rock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 484 ✭✭Blink182rock


    gman2k wrote: »
    Maybe they were after coming straight from an 11 aside match?

    a 11 aside of what ;)

    Im going to hell


  • #24
    dave1982
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,604 ✭✭✭dave1982


    http://ambrand.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/eur5by3.jpg


  • #25
    killeoinisback
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭killeoinisback


    On the subject of priests/religion,

    Why was Brian Lenihan buried in a Chruch of Ireland graveyard? I thought he was catholic?


  • #26
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭squod


    killeoinisback wrote: »
    On the subject of priests/religion,

    Why was Brian Lenihan buried in a Chruch of Ireland graveyard? I thought he was catholic?

    .


  • #27
    UsernameInUse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 778 ✭✭✭UsernameInUse


    Didn't know he was buried already. And they're still doing an autopsy on the economy.


  • #28
    Corsendonk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Corsendonk


    killeoinisback wrote: »
    On the subject of priests/religion,

    Why was Brian Lenihan buried in a Chruch of Ireland graveyard? I thought he was catholic?

    He was, and catholics do get buried in Protestant graveyards all over Ireland.


  • #29
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    killeoinisback wrote: »
    On the subject of priests/religion,

    Why was Brian Lenihan buried in a Chruch of Ireland graveyard? I thought he was catholic?
    Something to do with the Good Friday Agreement. All our ex government ministers have to be buried in CoI cemeteries for the next 50 years and all the Unionist ones have to be buried in catholic cemeteries.

    A weird one alright but anything to keep peace on this fair isle of ours.


  • #30
    ciano1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭ciano1


    YOU LET DOUGAL DO A FUNERAL!!??


  • Advertisement
  • #31
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    I think this topic is of poor taste


  • #32
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Yes there is no need for a thread on this.


This discussion has been closed.
Advertisement